Advocates Fume as State Housing Plan Delayed Until 2017 Posted on August 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Crain's New York A group calling for more apartments for the homeless criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday for delaying the state’s plans for $2 billion in affordable housing money, which was earmarked this spring as part of the state budget. In April, the governor signed ..Read More
Gov. Cuomo Doubtful That Full $2B Will be Available for Affordable Housing This Year Posted on August 12, 2016 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo said Thursday he does not expect a deal to dole out the full $2 billion in affordable housing money agreed to in the current state budget until next year. Cuomo has been under pressure by affordable housing advocates to cut a deal as quic ..Read More
Homeless Advocates Press Gov. Cuomo to Stick to Housing Pledge Posted on August 3, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News For the second week in a row, homeless people and advocates protested outside of Gov. Cuomo’s Third Ave. office, demanding he follow through on his pledge to spend $1.9 billion on 20,000 units of supportive housing. Around 50 protesters urged Cuomo to cu ..Read More
Today’s Read: Number of Homeless Single Adults in NYC Rose 95 Percent in a Decade Posted on August 2, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone After decades of failed policies that fueled an unprecedented surge in the City’s shelter census, the number of men, women and children bedding down in homeless shelters remains stubbornly stuck around 60,000. The recent levelling off is largely the result o ..Read More
It’s About to Get Easier for Homeless Kids to Go to School Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in TakePart They sleep in cars, shelters, or trailer parks or doubled up in bedrooms, but thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, America’s 1.3 million homeless students should soon find it easier to enroll and succeed in the nation’s public scho ..Read More
Number of Homeless Single Adults in NYC Has Risen 95 Percent in a Decade Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Huffington Post A record number of single adults are homeless in New York City. On a given night, 14,222 single adults ― meaning they are not part of a family ― seek out homeless shelters in NYC, Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless, told T ..Read More
The Rise of K2: The Drug is Legal, Dangerous – And Can’t Be Stopped Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Guardian Beauty has seizures, and she worries about what she’ll be doing when the next one occurs. She was lucky with the first: she was in bed asleep next to her boyfriend, who woke to the bed shaking and was quick to pry his 24-year-old girlfriend’s jaw open to p ..Read More
